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May 05, 2003
Los Angeles @04:20 PM
A new mobile interest.
A few choice LA quotes:
Whatever glass and steel monuments may be built downtown, the essence of Los Angeles, its true identifying characteristic, it mobility. Freedom of movement has long given life a special flavour there, liberated the individual to enjoy the sun and space that his environment so abundantly offered, put the manifold advantages of a great metropolitan area within his grasp.
- Richard Austin Smith: Fortune, March 1965
In Los Angeles people think of space in terms of time, time in terms of routes...and of automobiles as natural and essential extensions of themselves.
- Miles: International Times, 14 March 1969
On my first visit to Los Angeles I was conventionally prepared for almost anything except what it really looked like - a quite beautiful place.
- Nathan Silver: New Statesman, 28 March 1969
LA is a place built on mobile culture. Or rather, the kind of place that has built mobile culture. I'm beginning to think about how to use mobile networks in this city, how to best incorporate them into the existing landscape in a way that social space would be positively reinforced. I need to think more about this. I want to know what the Labyrinth Project is conceiving for their upcoming mobile los angeles project. Are they aware of space? Social Geography? In the meantime, I would recommend checking out the book I'm about to post.
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